Chapter 49: Plate-carrying Behavior
When people are weak, they will be more dependent on others. Under Li Siyan's coercion, I reluctantly moved my bedding back to Zichen Hall and resumed the days of sleeping in the same bed with him.
Li Siyan reluctantly decided to abide by the agreement and not attack me until my body recovered, but... that was all. During the days of recuperation, he hardly left my side. He would pull me over to whisper in my ear, kiss and hug me whenever he had nothing to do.
...If you ignore the way I secretly clenched my back teeth, we look like an ordinary couple.
But I obviously hate him so much.
While lying in his arms, I thought about Wen Baibi's proposal more than once.
We were in such a rush that day that I didn't have time to compare many details. Later, when I thought about it, I realized that her plan seemed perfect, but it contained many uncertainties. For example, arson - if I did that, I would definitely hurt innocent people and go against my conscience. Even if someone was willing to die for me, would Li Siyan really believe that it was me?
Once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. I am too afraid of Li Siyan's rage. If he knew that I intended to escape, maybe... maybe...
I couldn't imagine what he would do. Break my legs? Keep me like a slave in golden chains? And abuse me day and night?
Thinking of this, I couldn't help but shudder - with Li Siyan's personality, he could do all of the above.
Or maybe just forget it and take a long-term view...
"what's on your mind?"
I turned around and saw Li Siyan lying on the edge of the couch with one hand supporting his forehead, looking at me expressionlessly.
"I...Is it not okay for me to just sit there in a daze?" I said, "And how can you do that? The doctor told you not to twist your neck."
Li Siyan reluctantly sat up straight and changed the subject: "What did the Queen say to you on the day I was assassinated?"
He knew so quickly that the Queen had come to see me.
I glanced at Qingfu outside the palace. It must be this damn old eunuch who filed the complaint again!
Li Siyan lowered his eyes and observed my expression.
"The Queen came to take care of you and to see me," I told the lie I had prepared. "Oh, she also said Concubine Wei Shu wanted to have a chat with me."
"That's all?" He clearly didn't believe me and pinched my cheek. "We've been sitting here for half an hour, and that's all you said?"
I nodded seriously and innocently: "What else do you think two girls would talk about? Talking about the country and the people, and being an official?"
"If it's you two, it's really possible." Li Siyan said, "The Wen family has few descendants, and she was raised as a boy. Maybe you revealed some confidential secrets to her?"
I laughed out loud, "Yes, I've told the Queen all your secrets. We're conspiring to usurp your throne. When we succeed, we'll chop you up and feed you to the dogs."
Li Siyan couldn't help laughing: "Wow, you are really promising."
"If you chop me off, who would be so willing to serve you?" Li Siyan said with a grin, "Your taste in men is too poor. I'm worried."
I couldn't stand it any longer and kicked him: "Do you still remember that you are the emperor? You keep finding fault with me. Believe it or not, go to your court. If you don't work hard for the people, sooner or later someone else will usurp your throne!"
Li Siyan enjoyed my hot temper the most. He happily dodged me and kissed me on the forehead when I wasn't paying attention. He felt refreshed and prepared to get dressed.
I pointed at his back and said to Yi De indignantly, "What is he laughing at? What's so funny?"
He chuckled and laughed too.
After leaving the court, Li Siyan took a detour to Wen Baibi's Hanliang Palace, sat there for about half an hour, and then returned under the scorching sun.
Looking at his gloomy face, one could tell that Wen Baibi was keeping his mouth shut, and he didn't get out any useful questions.
I deftly helped him take off his dragon robe, gloating, "Oh, you got rejected by the Queen, didn't you? Serves you right."
Li Siyan said irritably, "I shouldn't have married her!"
"If you don't marry her, who will you marry? Is there any woman in the country with a more noble family background than hers?"
The answer is no. The reason why Wen Baibi is so confident is that she has a top-level aristocratic family behind her that even the emperor cannot afford to offend.
"Did you know her before?" Li Siyan picked out a casual outfit and put it on, then looked up and asked me.
"I know him, but not very well."
"Oh?" He raised his eyebrows and jokingly said, "She almost became your sister-in-law's woman. You're not familiar with her?"
I paused, "...How did you know?"
Then he felt that he had asked a stupid question. According to Li Siyan's style, he had to investigate the candidates thoroughly before the election. It was no secret that he could find a son-in-law from under the list. If he wanted to know, he would find out.
So he readily said, "How can she be considered my sister-in-law? We didn't have a formal engagement. It just happened that my brother was favored by Minister Wen. Later, my father personally came to clarify that my family was not allowed to marry into the Shen family, and no one mentioned this matter again."
"The Shen family is not allowed to marry into the family? Why?"
"This is the family rule set by our ancestors. We have three hundred family rules. Men are not allowed to take concubines without reason, women are not allowed to elope at will, and women are not allowed to shave their heads and leave the world..."
I listed a few offhandedly, not forgetting to urge him: "...I've broken at least fifty house rules for you. If you force me again, you'll be truly ungrateful and worse than a beast. Do you understand?"
Li Siyan said lazily, "This is a bit difficult. I am an ungrateful person. Even if I am condemned by thousands of people, I will get what I want."
"But if you behave yourself, I won't force you anymore." Seeing my face begin to twist, he quickly tried to make amends.
I snorted and said, "You'd better do this, otherwise I will never be willing in my life."
Li Siyan seemed to enjoy listening to me talk about these family matters. As he listened, he played with my hair and finally asked, "So she came to see you just to catch up?"
"We had nothing old to talk about, so we just chatted about family matters." I made up a lie. "If I have to talk about old times, there is one thing. She once gave me a gift, but she left it and left without leaving a name. I never knew who gave it to her, but when she mentioned it this time, I realized it was her gift."
"What did she give you?"
"Rare ancient books."
Li Siyan smiled, lowered his head and kissed my hair: "You treasure the gifts given to you by others, but you never look down on the gifts given to you by me."
He was probably talking about a batch of books that were sent to me a while ago for me to kill time. I was in a bad mood when those books were delivered and had no intention of reading them carefully. I just picked up a few that I liked and threw away the rest.
I said, "You gave me too many books. I can't possibly store them all."
"Why not?" He seemed very persistent in this topic: "If you ask me for some more, I can put it down."
Only then did I realize that he actually wanted me to ask him for something.
Well, I thought to myself, whether I accept Wen Baibi's plan or not, it is necessary to make Li Siyan happy, so I said, "I don't like using shelves. I use book boxes at home. Do you have any in the warehouse? I want the kind that is painted, otherwise it won't be insect-proof."
"nature."
Li Siyan was visibly pleased when he finally got the chance to send me something. He immediately asked Qingfu to carry the box and told him to bring the best.
I looked at him coldly, as if I were looking at a big dog trying hard to fetch a plate.
Ever since Li Siyan let himself go, he has never concealed his affection for me. Sometimes he overdoes it, appearing extremely fawning and cheap, not at all like a normal monarch.
The king saw that Tian'er had gone mad, and it seemed that the dynasty was about to end...
I couldn't bear to see him wagging his tail, so I stood up and said, "I'm going out for a walk."
Li Siyan flashed to my side like a ghost: "...I will go with you."
"……oh."
I didn't want to pay any attention to him, so I put on a robe indifferently and walked straight out of the hall.
Halfway through the walk, he turned back angrily and said, "Why are these guards haunting me?! Didn't you tell them not to follow me?"
"They are here to protect me. It has nothing to do with you."
"Let them go." I said angrily.
Li Siyan glanced at me and waved his hand to dismiss the guards.
In fact, I couldn't walk far. I called it going out for a walk, but the area I could walk was limited to the management boundary of Zichen Palace. There were few houses in the palace, but there were so many walls that I didn't even have a chance to sneak out.
When I walked back to the old ginkgo tree at the entrance of the temple for the third time, my expression gradually collapsed.
...It's so boring, I'm so bored that I want to scream.
It was fine when I had a job before, but now I’m idle all day long. Li Siyan is going to make me sick!
I turned around and pointed at the door leading to Beiyu Street, and said to the dog emperor who had been following me, "I want to go out."
"no."
He obeys me in everything except going out, which he always refuses to do.
I pursed my lips and thought to myself, should I try throwing a tantrum?
Seeing my dejected expression, he slowly said, "...The Purple Palace has everything, why do you still want to go outside?"
"Nature," I explained. "No one can be locked up in the same place for their entire lives. Even if you raise a rabbit, you have to let it out to eat some grass from time to time, right?"
Li Siyan nodded: "That makes sense, but what would you do if I never let you go out?"
"I'll go crazy." I thought about it and gave an answer with a very high probability.
"Do you want to sleep with a crazy person in your arms every day?" I asked him. "The kind that suddenly sits up in the middle of the night and screams and scratches you?"
Li Siyan actually laughed: "You're not talking about a madman, you're talking about a zombie."
"And if it's you, it's quite interesting."
I was shocked by his perverted hobby: "...Do you know what a real lunatic looks like?"
"Know."
He picked up a whole ginkgo leaf from the ground, dusted it off, and inserted it into my hair. He listed them to me with great interest: "...I have seen many madmen, such as that cruel official in Marquis An's family, the teacher of the deposed crown prince who died suddenly, and a provincial governor whose name I can't remember. I personally drove all of them mad."
"But don't worry, you're different from them," Li Siyan said with a gentle smile, and even tried to comfort me: "People like you who have been locked up and driven crazy won't howl and strip for no reason. They will just sit there in a daze all day long."
My face turned green with fright.
I was too abrupt. There was a mad dog next to me.
He had a handsome, sinister face, but because of his beautiful eyes, he seemed quite harmless when he smiled. With the gentlest of features, he told me the cruelest things: "I've only ever seen one person imprisoned to the point of madness. It was Emperor Gaozu's wife, Consort Zheng. She didn't go to be buried with the emperor, and because of that, she offended the Empress Dowager and was held under house arrest for thirty years. In the end, she was so emaciated that she was skin and bones, lying on her couch, dazed, waiting to die."
I watched him approach in horror, my usually articulate mouth stammering: "What do you mean... do you want to do this to me? You... you... you might as well kill me with a knife!"
He held the ginkgo leaf on my head steady and said with a smile, "Why are you so anxious? If that day ever comes, I will drag you down with me to hell and won't give anyone else the chance to bully you."
Me: “?” I can’t keep up.
The dog emperor wants me to be buried with him?
Li Siyan said: "So, you should pray that I live longer."
Suddenly, as if remembering something, he took my hand and said, "Come with me."
When he arrived at the imperial study, he found the supervising craftsman and gave him a few instructions. The supervisor took the order and left. Not long after, a group of apprentices came to see him with a thick stack of drawings.
Li Siyan instructed them to spread out the drawings one by one, pointed at the top one and asked me, "Do you know what this is?"
I squinted my eyes and could only roughly make out that it was a very large courtyard, but the structure was quite strange, not quite the same as the courtyards in our world.
Wait, the world of the living?
The world of the living!
I immediately felt sick, and with trembling hands I flipped through the drawings and saw...
Sure enough, the title clearly read "Imperial Tomb Style".
I quickly let go and took two steps back.
Oh my god! This is Li Siyan’s ancestral tomb! Ancestral tomb!
"Yes, this is the layout of the Li family's imperial mausoleum. Construction of my mausoleum just started the day before yesterday. It's roughly here."
Li Siyan happily held me in his arms, rested his chin on top of my furry head, and pointed to a small hill with beautiful scenery on the map.
Amidst my shock, he casually flipped open another floor plan and showed me his future residence: "...This is my mausoleum. When I enter the coffin, you will sleep in the smaller one next to it. The queen is on another hill, so she won't disturb us..."
"Wait!" I yelled and broke free from his arms.
"Li Siyan, forget about this life. I can't beat you, I admit defeat, but you actually want me to accompany you to the mausoleum. I can't rest in peace even after death. Is there anyone as wicked as you?" I was so angry that I was fuming.
Li Siyan never shied away from the bad side of his character, and said as a matter of course, "You also said that we in the royal family are born with bad morals. You can't get rid of it in life, and don't even think about it after death."
"But you can make some requests," Li Siyan said. "You like magnolia flowers. I can ask the craftsmen to carve a few branches on your coffin so that you can sleep more comfortably."
I answered him with a vicious headbutt.
Just like that, my request to go out was once again casually ignored by Li Siyan, and my wish to be buried next to my parents after death was also unfulfilled. Under these multiple blows, I was completely devastated for three whole days.
His condition was very similar to the dull madman that Li Siyan had described before.
This is not my fault. Any normal person who experienced the tragedy that happened to me would be lucky not to go completely crazy.
I couldn't eat or sleep well, and my condition made everyone in the Zichen Palace anxious. Doctor Fan came to see me and said that there was nothing wrong with my body. He prescribed some prescriptions to replenish qi and blood and left.
I looked at the thumb-sized slices of astragalus in the medicine bowl, feeling even more desperate. I slowly extended the medicine bowl out of the window...
"Drink it."
Suddenly, Li Siyan's brief and majestic voice came to my ears.
He rarely spoke to me in this voice, which he used only in court. I was so scared that I shivered and the medicine bowl tilted, and the soup spilled all over the place.
Li Siyan acted very quickly and immediately caught the medicine bowl. He put it to my mouth expressionlessly and repeated, "Drink it."
I drank it all in silence, handed the empty bowl to him, and continued to stare out the window in a daze.
A bony hand reached out and gently touched my forehead.
I looked up at Li Siyan in confusion.
The latter lowered his eyes, his long eyelashes casting a dark shadow under his eyes. He put the book back into the bookcase and said nonchalantly, "Since you want to go out so much, then go."
My eyes widened, thinking I had misheard.
He said, "The weather is nice, I will take you to climb the mountain."
This is the first time I have left Zichen Gate in two months.
Li Siyan took me on a quarter-hour carriage ride to the north city wall to overlook Longshouyuan.
The scenery on the top of the city wall is vast. The autumn wind brought by the returning geese blows away the yellow leaves in the northern suburbs, making the big flags on the building flutter.
"Over there are the remains of Han Chang'an, and to the northeast is Longshouyuan." He pointed to the layers of autumn forests outside the city and introduced them to me.
I was born and raised in Chang'an and often went to Longshouyuan to climb the heights, but this was the first time I had seen this plain from the city wall, and it filled me with mixed emotions.
Our ancestors believed that a dragon vein lay at the heart of Chang'an, and that building it as a capital would ensure its eternal prosperity. But if this were true, why was the Afang Palace burned to the ground and the Hanque Palace reduced to a desolate hill? It was a fleeting dream, leaving only the mighty Wei River flowing eastward.
Looking at the vast forest from afar, the historian's instinct to reminisce about the past and feel sad about the present suddenly took over. I was melancholy for a moment and my emotions turned into poetic inspiration. I really wanted to recite such a poem on the spot... But Li Siyan was here, and I didn't like to write poetry in front of him.
Li Siyan asked me, "Does it look good?"
"The scenery is magnificent, the forests are picturesque, rarely seen." I said, "... The idle clouds and the pools are reflected in the leisurely sun, and the world has changed and the stars have shifted for several autumns. The Han people tried their best to occupy this Feng Shui dragon vein, but it still turned to yellow earth. Life and death are impermanent, and they wither and flourish at times, just like these trees..."
Li Siyan listened quietly, and at the end he said to me, "Just by seeing a tree turn yellow, he can talk about the rise and fall of dynasties. This is truly an extraordinary ability."
"You don't understand." I dejectedly.
Reminiscing about the past and lamenting the present, the key point is lamenting the present. If life is going well now, who would have the time to reminisce about the past?
We only stood there for a while when a few strong winds blew in from the horizon. Judging from the clouds, it was going to rain. Li Siyan took me in his arms, turned around, and ordered someone to prepare the car to go back.
Sometimes I feel that humans are also a kind of plants that grow towards the light. They cannot stand staying in a covered place for a long time and always have to go out to bask in the sun.
After seeing the magnificent scenery, my mood improved a little, but this good mood did not last long, because Li Siyan brought me some sad news.
"The slave girl has finished her interrogation."
I was stunned at first, then I realized that he was probably talking about Pingsheng.
"Guess what the question came up with?"
I was startled and my eyes unconsciously fell on the vase containing the mercury balls.
Did she betray me?
What if Li Siyan mistakenly thinks I want to kill him?
I was so frightened that I could barely control my expression. However, Li Siyan was still looking at me with scrutiny. I didn't dare show any of it. I just tried my best to maintain a curious look and asked nervously, "Is it really the eldest princess?"
Li Siyan's expression was calm: "She endured ten kinds of torture, but she still refused to speak out. For a little girl like her, she has quite a bit of backbone."
"It's just that I followed the wrong master," Li Siyan said with a hint of regret. "Qinghe is just like her elder brother. They are both stupid and useless people who are not worth following. After the incident, they insisted on entering the palace to see if I was dead. They didn't even try to cover it up."
"The Princess... is trying to enter the palace?" I frowned. "That shouldn't be the case... She has no power, so even if she enters, she won't be able to control the overall situation."
Li Siyan showed disdain in his eyes and sat next to me with his robe lifted.
I moved my legs calmly.
He glanced at me displeasedly, but said nothing. He simply continued, "This cheap sister of mine has always been like this. She was favored by the late emperor, and her brain has been spoiled by honey since she was young. She does things without any rules or considerations for the consequences."
He took a candied fruit and fed it to me, saying slowly, "When I was first brought to see my brothers and sisters, the deposed crown prince, though not sincere, at least said a few nice words to me. But this imperial sister poured a bowl of boiling water on me and called me a bastard."
It turns out that the Dog Emperor also has times when he is a poor little thing and is bullied.
I was deeply surprised, and besides being surprised, I also felt a little emotional: when I was a historian, I knew nothing about the royal family. Now that I have stepped down, all kinds of magical gossips are rushing towards me like a tsunami.
"So how did you respond to her?"
Li Siyan said nonchalantly, "I beat her up."
This answer is not surprising.
Li Siyan may have learned to be patient now, but at the age of ten, he had just walked out of the most vulnerable poison-making field in the world. He believed in only one rule: no matter how high the status of the other party was, he had to fight back if he was bullied.
My head twitched, and I suddenly said, "Did you win?"
Li Siyan laughed heartily, rubbed his face against my nose affectionately, and said lightly, "Of course I won."
"You have to understand that for someone like me, every battle is a huge gamble. If I lose once, I won't be worthy of standing before you." He stroked my hair and said, "You need to be obedient. I don't want to use these methods on you."
I was already used to his constant threats, so I ignored them and pressed on, "So what are you going to do with Pingsheng and the Princess?"
Li Siyan said lazily: "I think that slave girl is quite courageous. Leave her body intact. Princess..."
He wanted to say something, but suddenly glanced at me, swallowed the words on his lips, and changed his words: "...Let her go back to her fiefdom."
I caught the flash of murderous intent in his eyes and said nothing.
He probably prepared a very undignified death for the princess, but didn't want me to know.
Two months later, Li Siyan finally ordered Pingsheng to be killed. He used poison and left his body intact, which was considered a leniency.
On the second day after Pingsheng passed away, the news of the eldest princess's death spread into the palace, proving that I was indeed right.
She died in a very ignominious way. The news said that after she returned to her fiefdom, she indulged in revelry every night, and was drained of her body by alcohol and sex. In the end, she died inexplicably at the hands of a lover.
After hearing about this, I didn't know how to feel - she planned to use me as a tool and then get rid of me after the job was done. I should hate her, but I didn't want her to die in a foreign country, let alone in such a terrible way.
I talked about this with Xiao Jinlian, and I shuddered while talking.
In fact, I have met the eldest princess before. Although she is domineering and looks down on others, she is actually just a little girl who has not grown up and whose brain is not very useful. Before she lost her life, she may not have realized how terrible Li Siyan is.
This reckless personality is somewhat similar to mine. I couldn't help but put myself in his shoes and asked Xiao Jinlian, "Do you think he will get tired of me one day and let me die in such a carefree way?"
Xiao Jinlian was stunned. "My lady, why would you think that? His Majesty can't leave my lady even for a moment. Last time, he even risked his life for her. It's obvious that he has feelings for her."
I felt that this girl had a serious problem with her thinking, so I said seriously, "You're not right. If he really had feelings for me, he wouldn't force me to obey him again and again."
Xiao Jinlian held it in for a long time before finally managing to utter something: "But...but Your Majesty is the Emperor. Doesn't the Emperor...can do whatever he wants?"
"Jinlian, you simply haven't read enough history books. Look at the emperors who indulged in women. How many of them had a good ending? King Zhou of Shang, Emperor You of Zhou, Emperor Xiaocheng of Han, and the last emperor of Qi. They all blamed their own failures on women. How shameless!"
I seized the opportunity to reshape her values: "An emperor should be like Emperor Gaozu and Emperor Taizong, creating great achievements and wholeheartedly helping the people, only then can he maintain his glorious reputation."
The girl nodded, not quite understanding.
When I said this, Li Siyan happened to be out for a walk. Hearing this, he pinched the twin buns on my head and said lazily, "The emperor is just a mortal with some foundation. He also has love, hate, anger, and delusion. You don't understand men. If Meng Xu had such power, he would also tie you tightly to his side."
As I glared at him, Li Siyan exaggerated some imperial history he had heard from somewhere: "You said the emperor should create great achievements like Taizong. Am I not better than him? Sejong did a lot of immoral things too, but his merits and demerits offset each other. He also kept countless talented and eloquent women, but he didn't dare to tell the world because of the censors..."
He dared to tell unofficial history in front of a serious historian! I was so angry that I quickly covered Xiao Jinlian's ears: "...He is talking nonsense! Don't listen!"
Li Siyan laughed out loud and returned to the imperial study feeling refreshed.
I let go of Xiao Jinlian and said sternly, "Don't listen to his nonsense. By the way, have you reviewed the words we taught you yesterday? If not, write them again quickly."
"I'll go right away." Jinlian took out the charcoal pencil she carried with her.
"Come back!" I suddenly remembered something and called her anxiously.
Xiao Jinlian turned around: "...Madam, do you have any instructions?"
"I don't think it's right," I frowned and analyzed carefully, "The eldest princess only instructed Pingsheng. Someone else must have let her in."
"The inner courtyard is heavily guarded. How could a little palace maid like her, who knows nothing about my background, just casually come to my side? After the incident, Li Siyan only interrogated Pingsheng and didn't even investigate anyone else. It's so strange."
I felt like I was possessed by the Great Lord of Heaven, radiating wisdom and righteousness, peeling away layers of cocoon, revealing the truth hidden within...
Unexpectedly, Little Jinlian didn't even stutter, and said crisply, "Your Majesty has investigated. The Purple Palace and the Shang Palace Bureau have been purged. Sisters Huiyue and Suxi were even whipped for this."
"Why didn't anyone tell me?"
Xiao Jinlian said, "Grandpa Qingfu told us not to tell my wife, fearing that she would plead with His Majesty."
"My lady asked who allowed Pingsheng in. I heard from the people in the Palace Affairs Bureau that it was Aunt Suxing..." Little Jinlian's voice gradually softened. "She had received the eldest princess's favor, so she used her status to help Pingsheng and the old lady from last time stay in the palace..."
I was speechless for a long time, and then I blurted out, "...She, how could she make such a mistake?"
"One servant has two masters. This is a huge taboo."
"My lady, you don't know. Aunt Su Xing is well-known for repaying a favor." Little Jinlian said, "No one knows why Aunt Su Xing insisted on doing this, but she is so stubborn, so she must have anticipated the outcome."
The rest of the story is very sad.
Su Xing, who was once the most powerful and the head of the female officials in the inner court, was sent to the imperial mausoleum alone, where she guarded the mausoleum by the waning moon and a solitary lamp to atone for her sins.
But Li Siyan still remembered the past, and his methods towards her were much gentler than those towards the eldest princess. At least he gave her the dignity she deserved, and kept the news secret tightly, so only a few people knew the whole story.
Since then, I have never seen Su Xing again.
It was already late autumn, and the various chrysanthemums planted by the palace servants were in full bloom, with vibrant colors and unparalleled splendor.
When Su Xing was in Zichen Palace, she had planted a few chrysanthemums and kept them in a ceramic pot with reliefs. Although she has left now, the flowers remain. The chrysanthemums do not feel sad at all for their owner's departure, and they still smile gracefully at the autumn breeze.
Where once stood the golden steps and white jade hall, now only the green pines remain. Plants are the most heartless creatures; they never grieve over the past. Look how happily those chrysanthemums are smiling; they are laughing at my self-conceit.
When the ginkgo leaves began to fall, I leaned against the red pillar like a plant to bask in the sun.
I was chewing the crystal grapes that Anxi had sent me, and above my head was the clear blue sky, dotted with a few passing clouds.
The White Dew in Chang'an is my favorite season.
Looking at the towering walls of the Purple Palace and the golden ginkgo leaves scattered on the ground in front of the palace, I recalled the past events that Li Siyan had told me.
That year, the little princess poured a cup of boiling water on him. The other palace people watched coldly, and only a young female official came forward to wipe his clothes.
Therefore, before Li Siyan raised his fist to teach the little princess a lesson, he specifically asked the female official: What is your name?
The female official was stunned for a moment and replied: In reply to Your Highness, my name is Su Xing.
I bit into a bright white grape and licked my fingers, lost in thought.
Li Siyan's dilemma is that those who have been kind to him are all kind-hearted by nature, and they help him only out of compassion. I, Mr. Guo Xin, and Su Xing are all like this.
Therefore, when Li Siyan came to power and began to use the power in his hands to persecute others, these people would stand against him without hesitation.
What Li Siyan wants is unconditional loyalty, but we don't have that. People like us are stupid, don't know what's good for us, and don't know how to judge the situation. We are destined to disappoint him.
This is how fate plays tricks on us.
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